Michaela Angela Davis Strips Down For The “What’s Underneath Project,” Talks Racism, InsecuritiesPosted in Arts, Autobiography, Interviews, Media Archive, United States, Videos, Women on 2016-08-22 23:28Z by Steven |
Michaela Angela Davis Strips Down For The “What’s Underneath Project,” Talks Racism, Insecurities
Madame Noire
2016-08-22
Brande Victorian, Managing Editor
Michaela Angela Davis has long been everything and then some to us, and our opinion of the writer, culture critique, and activist has only skyrocketed after watching her strip down for StyleLikeU’s highly regarded “What’s Underneath Project.”…
…And we’re thankful for that. Here are the highlights from Davis’ interview:
On assumptions people make about her because of how she looks
“The first, sort of obvious assumption is that I’m mixed race– like one parent is white, one parent is Black — and it’s not so. Both of my parents are light-skinned and Black. Both of my parents are products of what I call the great horror story of America and the great love story of America. In order to survive, often families would marry other light-skinned Blacks to stay alive…
Read the entire article here.